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LING 520 Introduction to Phonetics ILING 520 Introduction to Phonetics I

Fall 2008Fall 2008

Week 1Week 1

Introduction

Anatomy of speech production

Consonants and vowels

Phonetic transcription

Sep. 8, 2008

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What is phonetics?

• Phonetics is the study of speech sounds.

(from Denes & Pinson, 1993)

• Articulatory phonetics, acoustic phonetics, auditoryphonetics.

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Articulatory phonetics

• How are speech sounds produced?

• How do we classify and transcribe speech sounds?

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Acoustic phonetics

• The acoustic properties of speech sounds.

She sells seashells on the seashore and the seashells that shesells are seashells I’m sure (consonants and vowels).

Mandarin toneshttp://www.uiowa.edu/~linguist/faculty/beckman/lotw01/mantone.html

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Auditory phonetics

• How are speech sounds received and perceived?

http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/sound/u11l2d.html

McGurk Effect:http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~rosenblu/VSMcGurk.html

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Course outline

TOOLS: Praat, Matlab, R

Introduction

(Week 1)

Articulatory phonetics

(Week 2 ~ 4)

Acoustic phonetics

(Week 5 ~10)

Auditory phonetics

(Week 11 ~12)

Statistical techniques

(Week 13)

Conclusion

(Week 14)

LECTURES

Using Praat

(Lab 1)

IPA transcription

(Lab 2)

Matlab and siginal processing

(Lab 3)

Vowel formants

(Lab 4)

Spectrogram and segmentation

(Lab5)

Prosodic features

(Lab 6)

Final project

LABS

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Sagittal section of the vocal tract (Techmer 1880)

[From: Dan Jurafsky slide]

Nasal Cavity

Oral Cavity

Larynx: vocal folds in it

Pharynx

Trachea: the windpipe

Lung: supply airstream

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The anatomy of the larynx and vocal cords

[From: www.yoursurgery.com]

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Upper Surface Lower Surface

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[From: Dan Jurafsky slide]

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From: Jennifer Venditti slide

he who

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• Phonemes and allophones• Phoneme: one of a set of abstract units that can be used for

writing a language down in a systematic and unambiguousway.

• Allophone: a variant of a phoneme. The allophones of aphoneme form a set of sounds that do not change themeaning of a word and are all very similar to one another. Forexample, study and tie.

• Phonemes and allophones are language-specific.

• Broad vs. narrow transcription• Narrow transcription: captures as many aspects of a specific

pronunciation as possible and ignores as few details aspossible.

• Broad transcription (or phonemic transcription): ignores asmany details as possible, capturing only enough aspects of apronunciation to show how that word differs from other.

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• Visible Speech (Alexander Melville Bell 1819 – 1905): the firstnotation system for the sounds of speech independent of aparticular language or dialect.

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• Romic Alphabet (Henry Sweet 1845 – 1910): It is the directancestor of the modern IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet).The alphabet differs from previously proposed spelling reformsby favoring using the Roman alphabet and the original Latinsound values.

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• International Phonetic Alphabet: the first IPA chart was

published in 1888.

1932 Version

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Phonetic transcription: ARPAbet

British160,595IPACELEX

American100,000ARPAbetCMUdict

American90,694ARPAbetLDCPRONLEX

English

variety

number ofwordforms

phoneset

derived from:

• ARPAbet uses only ASCII characters.

• It is widely used in the speech technology society.

• Online pronunciation dictionaries:

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ARPAbet-IPA chart

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Unicode and IPA

• In old days, fonts contain 256 glyphs, with code pointsnumbered 0 to 255. In most fonts, code point 65 was the glyphA. in a particular IPA font, however, code point 65 might be theglyph .

• Unicode encoding uses 32 bits. This is enough that each distinctglyph can have a unique number. For example, A is number 65and is number 336.

• Unicode IPA fonts: Lucida Grande, Arial Unicode MS, Lucida SansUnicode, Doulos SIL, Charis SIL, Gentium.

• How to use unicode IPA fonts:

1. Handel, “unicode and IPA” http://courses.washington.edu/chin342/342guide_to_unicode_ipa.pdf

2. Hayes: Phonetic Fonts Page http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/Fonts/

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